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Kim Kardashian Upstages Lauren Sanchez's Wedding, Zohran Mamdani Outrage, and Out-of-Control "Pride
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Link Lauren dives into Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos’ star-studded wedding in Venice, Italy and “The View” saying President Trump doesn’t like strong women. Then New York Post Columnist, Miranda Devine joins with her take on Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer’s investigation into Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, Zohran Mamdani taking over New York City and more. Plus, Link gives his take on NYC’s Pride March and the Supreme Court siding with Maryland parents over LGBTQ books in school. Masa Chips: Get 25% off your first order | Use code LINK at https://MASAChips.com/LINK Delta Rescue: Visit https://DeltaRescue.org to learn more
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Link
Well my friends, welcome back to Spoton with Link. Lauren, it's been a couple of days. I have missed you. It is fourth of July week. Everything is red, white and blue. We've got our American flag outside waving in the wind. I hope you are ready for a jam packed episode. We have a very special guest. We have Miranda Devine coming on later. She's a New York Post columnist. She's written books on the Biden crime family and the influence pedaling, things we were told weren't happening for years but we all knew were absolutely happening. We have to talk about the pride parades which have just descended into debauchery and chaos and are pretty disgusting. And this is coming from a very gay man right here. We have to also talk about the big beautiful bill a little bit. What's going on with that Zor and mom Donnie in New York City. And last but not least, Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos wedding in Venice. So we're going to get into all of it. Let's dive right in. Well, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. I imagine your invitation got lost too. But let's talk about Lauren Sanchez's over the top wedding. Apparently this wedding cost about $50 million. It might have cost 60 million, 70 million, who cares? Because when you're worth $200 billion billion with a B, what's a couple of million? What's 50, 60, 70? They could have spent $100 million on this wedding and not even blinked. Now as I told you Guys, before, I don't do destination weddings. You won't see me at a destination wedding. I will not travel unless it's within an hour of my house. I'm probably not coming to your wedding. I might not show up for my own wedding unless it in my living room. Okay? Like I said, I don't do destination weddings. I think asking your guests to do a destination wedding is kind of a slap in the face, asking them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to book hotels and travel internationally. Unless you are Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos, and all your friends are the Kardashians, Oprah Wininfrey, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, Lauren Sanchez, she went viral for this Dolce and Gabbana dress she wore. It's real white and lacy. I'm not a fashionista, but if you're listening to us on Spotify and Apple, come over to YouTube and you'll see what we are talk about. Now, she is also on the COVID of Vogue. I don't know if this is why Anna Wintour stepped down, but Vogue has certainly descended, right? Vogue used to put models on the COVID and real thought leaders. Now they put this woman on because she married a very, very wealthy man. But she does look happy. And I'm someone, you know, I've hated on Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos a little bit. I've come around to actually liking them because they just own the fact that they're out of touch. They're not trying to be something they're not. They're not like Harry and Meghan, who are trying to act all down to earth and relatable while they're living in a mansion. And Montecito, Lauren Sanche, she's like, yeah, I'm marrying one of the wealthiest men on earth. We're in love. We're both short and important, and we like to have a good time. Jeff Bezos seems so giddy and so happy. The man is beaming and smiling and grinning from ear to ear. But I want to talk about some of the wedding guests. So we have to start off by talking about the Kardashians. The Kardashians all went to this wedding. I think the only one that did not go to the wedding was Kourtney Kardashian. And I hate that I even know that. I actually feel my brain disintegrating. The fact that I know that is disgusting. But Kris Jenner, being the momager that she is, because the devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder. She schlepped her whore daughters all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to go to Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos wedding. Because she was probably hoping, hey, if Lauren Sanchez gets cold feet, if she doesn't make it down the aisle, she's got a couple of her daughters here lined up. I imagine Kris Jenner was thinking, well, if there's some other dignitaries or wealthy, successful princes and kings at the wedding, she can pawn her daughters off to them like medieval times. It really felt like some Bridgerton situation where Kris Jenner had all of her single daughters there ready to be pawned off to the highest bidder at this fancy, highfalutin wedding. But the fact of the matter is this. Kim Kardashian was probably seething at this wedding. I imagine Kim Kardashian, who has whored herself out for 20 years, sex tape. She's promoted Cupcake. She's promoted every product under the sun. She's dated Ray J. She's dated Kanye, probably a couple other other guys with yays in their name. But Kim is at this wedding with watching Lauren Sanchez, who seemingly came out of nowhere, didn't hustle as hard as she did, just walk her way down the aisle to marry a man who is worth $200 billion. So I imagine Kim Kardashian was upset. And you can tell Kim Kardashian was upset because at the after party, she showed up in one of the most revealing outfits I've ever seen at a wedding. I don't care if it was the after party. If you guys are listening to us, I'm going to explain this to you as best I can. It's basically a Marie Antoinette sort of let them eat cake outfit. If Marie Antoinette was mauled by raccoon, it's lacy. It seems like it's missing parts. Her boobs are busting out of it. Kim Kardashian, you are not a girl's girl for showing up to another woman's wedding in this outfit. And like I said, I don't care if it was the after party. I don't care if it was the next night. Showing up to a woman's wedding in this outfit is abject insanity. Is objectively crazy. But that's who Kim Kardashian is. And you know, she is seething because she has hustled and hoard herself out with these loser guys and basketball players and rappers. And here comes Lauren Sanchez going to marry a man worth $200 billion. Now, some other guests at the wedding we have to talk about Oprah Winfrey. So Oprah Winfrey, she goes to this wedding and what I find so hypocritical about Oprah Winfrey is on November 4, the night before the election, Oprah Winfrey told us, unless we vote for Kamala Harris, we might never have another election. We might never have another election. Democracy is going to come to an end if President Trump gets back in office. Everybody's lives are going to turn into hellish hellscapes. Well, Opra seems to be doing great. She's with Gayle, her best friend. And I use the word best friend loosely. They're at the wedding, living it up. There are about 90 private jets, I'm told, that arrived in Venice for this wedding. So, Oprah, you are full of crap for telling us that the world is going to come to an end because you seem to be hunky dory and doing just fine. And Gayle King, I'm happy to see she's made it back down to earth from her Blue Origin space ride. I'm sure they're offended that I'm calling it a ride. Now, Leonardo DiCaprio was also at the wedding. And as I mentioned, there are about 90 private jets that arrived in Venice for this fancy, highfalutin, extreme wedding that cost $60 million. So Leonardo DiCaprio, he kept trying to wear one of those black baseball caps. You guys know how he does. He wears these baseball, baseball caps. He tries to hide himself. Well, Leonardo DiCaprio, his whole thing is climate change. We can't fly private. We have to recycle, we have to compost, we have to drive, you know, rinkety electric vehicles. Well, Leonardo DiCaprio, you're also full of crap. Just like Oprah. It's the rules for thee, not for me. You want to preach and opine to all of us on how to live our lives, but then you're flying private into this wedding with your 27 year old girlfriend, which is actually old for you because you're used to dating girls who are under 25. One more thing I want to talk about as it pertains to this wedding. When I was watching the Kardashians get off of these boats and all these celebrities and Lauren Sanchez, there was so much silicone and filler at this wedding. It was like a Tupperware convention, okay? If a boat went down in the Venetian canals, at least we had some flotation devices because all of these women were there. And as I said on my social media over the weekend, if you're a plastic surgeon, if you're a plastic surgeon and you are looking for clients and a new clientele. You should have been at this wedding with your business card. You should have been going around saying, hey, here's my business card. Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Dr. So and so from Beverly Hills, because these women probably keep the plastic surgery business in check. And Oprah Winfrey, I don't care what she says. In my opinion, the O stands for Ozempic, because the woman looks like she is on Ozempic. And as far as I remember, she's invested in some company that's an Ozempic alternative, like a semaglutide sort of alternative, which I think is rich coming from a woman who is also an investor and weight watcher. So basically, Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos wedding, it was the hottest ticket for all these celebrities. One person who looked gorgeous, who looked incredible was none other than Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter. She looked great because Ivanka Trump is classy and gorgeous and stunning. So she looked awesome. She looked amazing. She was there with her husband, Jared Kushner. It seemed like it was an incredible time for me. I don't do the crowds, I don't do the chaos, I don't do the craziness. But if you're a rich, multi billionaire celebrity, you probably enjoyed the wedding. And Ivanka Trump, she looked gorgeous and stunning. And like I said, it's nice to see some classy people at this wedding mingling in with Kylie Jenner, who at 27 years old has probably been under the knife a dozen times. So, Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos, we wish you well, but we have to move on. Now, speaking of unbearable women, we have to talk about the women of the View. Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Ferrah Griffin. What's the blonde one's name? Sarah Haynes. We have to talk about all of these ridiculous women on the View because Joy Behar, she's gone viral the last few days for a comment she has made many times before, which is that President Trump apparently doesn't like strong willed, independent women.
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Joy Behar
He really doesn't really like strong women. He likes dutiful, obedient women who compliment him. I find even back in the day when I used to do jokes about his hair, you know, but every male comedian did jokes about his hair. But he went after me in particular. And Rosie who? And Rosie o' Donnell. Oh, Rosie. Yeah, he went bananas on Rosie. So he's not gonna like her. He does. Somehow this type of woman really gets in his Kishka stuff. Well, he projects too, also.
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Miranda Devine
Right.
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Link
He's calling her dumb and unqualified.
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Joy Behar
Yes. Well, yeah.
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Link
I mean, clearly Joy Behar is not living in reality because President Trump is surrounded by strong women. He is surrounded by more strong women than any president I've actually seen before. Like, yes, Joe Biden had Kareem Jean Pierre around him, but the woman carried this big binder and had no answers, unlike our current press secretary, Caroline Levitt, who's incredible. Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. She's amazing. You've got Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff. She is going to go down in history as one of the most consequential women. I truly believe Susie Wiles, they're going to write history books on this woman. She doesn't do a lot of media, she doesn't do a lot of interviews, but she's amazing. We also have Attorney General Pam Bondi. We have Brooke Rollins, who's the Secretary of Agriculture. We have Janine Pirro, who's in there. We have Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security. You have so many strong, incredible women. Of course, First Lady Melania Trump is there all the way. We love our first lady, Melania Trump. Ivanka Trump is by her husband's side all of the time. She's been at the White House a lot recently. Lara Trump is incredible. So President Trump is surrounded by strong women. Women for Trump was an incredibly strong movement on the campaign trail. It's part of the reason he won this election. So when you see Joy Behar going on national television on abc, which is owned by Disney, saying that the president does not like strong women, it's just anathema to what's actually happening in reality. Because the White House is really run in part by so many strong, incredible women. And they weren't chosen. Here's what I love. The women around President Trump, they weren't chosen because of their gender or because they were women. They were chosen because they were excellent. Right. Same with Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant. People say, oh, he's the highest ranking gay member of any cabinet in American history. Yes. But he wasn't chosen because he was gay. He was chosen because of his record, because of his resume and because of how incredible he was. And he's turned out to be such an effective cabinet member and surrogate for the Trump administration. So Joy Behar, she's a joke. We shouldn't take anything she says seriously. Whoopi Goldberg is also a joke. These women are clearly phoning it in and they have no interest in reaching out to the about 7778 million Americans who voted for President Trump, which is why people are turning off the View. These women go out there, they whine and they moan, and they basically preach to their very liberal choir. These liberal women who are at home, who need to feel coddled, who are still upset about the election results, they're still upset that Hillary Clinton lost back in November of 2016 at the Javits Center. They are still shattered. Their brains are still broken from that night when Hillary Clinton lost and Donald Trump ascended to the presidency in 2016. So, Joy Behar, we wish you well, but you're a liar. You don't live in reality. You're not a real journalist. Maybe put down the red wine. Put down the boxed wine, Joy Behar, and just join us here in the United States of America, where the president is surrounded by all of these strong women. There are more strong women working in the White House, in the Cabinet, in the administration, than there are on the panel of the View. Because if there are actually strong women on the View panel, they would be speaking the truth. They would be speaking common sense. They would be speaking honestly about what's going on in this country. And Alyssa Farah Griffin, she's supposed to be the conservative on the View, she's supposed to be the Republican. There is nothing Republican to me about Alyssa Farah Griffin. If you sit there and you allow the lies to go unchecked, then you are complicit and you're just as bad as all of these other women. And I guess Disney has decided we don't care about half the country that voted for President Trump. And you see that with some of their films, with all of these woke remakes that they're doing. But, Joy Behar, we're going to move on. This episode is brought to you by Masa Chips. Now, for weeks, I have been promoting these darn chips. You guys have commented, many of you have tried Masa Chips. Some of you want to try Masa Chips.
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Miranda Devine
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Link
Well, my friends, I could not be more excited about this next guest. I've been a huge fan of her book. She's been covering the Bidens and you guys know how I feel about that family. We have Miranda Devine coming on. She's a New York Post columnist. She's the host of the new podcast Pod Force One. She's also a Fox News contributor. I see her on TV all the time on Hannity. We have a clip from her podcast where she interviewed President Trump recently. Let's take a look.
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Hunter Biden
Came up to my father, they said, your son is brilliant at music. He'd be an incredible musician. This is not, this is not what my father wanted to hear. You know, this was not the greatest thing I've ever, but I do have an ear for music and I feel, you know, I think music has played a big role. We have, I play great music. People like the music I play.
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Miranda Devine
Did you ever play an instrument?
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Hunter Biden
I played like for very short periods of time. The flute, would you believe that?
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Miranda Devine
Did you like it?
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Hunter Biden
I had flute lessons. It's the first person that's ever asked me that crazy question. Yeah, I had flute. Can you believe it? I could have been a flutist and I didn't particularly like it. I don't know was it for me, but, and my mother had me with, I had instructors, an instructor come in to teach me how to play the Flute. Can you believe that? Who would think? I can't imagine an unusual instrument.
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Miranda Devine
You could maybe still do it.
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Hunter Biden
I doubt it. I don't think so.
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Link
Miranda, welcome. How are you doing? So great to see you. Thanks for coming on.
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Miranda Devine
Oh, thanks, Link. It's great to be with you.
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Link
Yes, it's so great to see you. One thing about President Trump that I know is that he absolutely loves music. And one thing I love about him is that we have the same playlist. It's like Memory from Cats. It's YMCA by the Village People. It's Sinead o' Connor. Nothing compares to you. Why do I have the same playlist as President Trump? I mean, his rallies are a concert, so I love that. But I don't want to waste any of your time. Something I feel hasn't gotten enough attention recently is this investigation into the auto pin and the COVID up that Comer is doing right now. I think because of the big beautiful bill, a lot of people aren't discussing it as much as they need to. What do you think is going to come from this investigation? Do you think when they call Karine Jean Pierre that we're going to learn anything new from her when she gets called in?
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Miranda Devine
Look, I think it will really depend on if any of these myriad people that James Comer is calling to testify before the Oversight Committee behind closed doors at the moment, whether any of them decide that they need to be more patriotic than loyal to Joe Biden and actually describe what was going on behind closed doors. Because there was so much about Joe Biden that was hidden and it was hidden by just a handful of kind of Biden loyalists. Particularly, I say that Jill Biden and her factotum, a man by the name of Antony Bernal, they really did a great job of isolating Joe Biden from the rest of the White House staff and his advisors and certainly from his cabinet and, I mean, other Democrats in Congress because they knew, I guess, that his cognitive decline was so sharp and so sort of shocking that if anyone saw that, saw him like they saw him up close and personal every day, that he would probably at some point be removed from office. And that was something that Jill Biden was certainly not going to abide.
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Link
Absolutely. So we keep hearing about this guy, Anthony Bernal. I think a lot of us who weren't really aware of him in the past, we keep hearing about him and he did not want to come in of his own volition. He's now been subpoenaed to come in and testify. Can you explain who exactly Anthony Bernal is to the Biden family, to Jill Biden, because we've heard that she, he is her work husband. I think it's weird if people use that term, work husband, work wife. Who would you say Anthony Bernal is to the family?
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Miranda Devine
Well, you're absolutely right, Link. That is what Jill Biden has called Anthony Bernal. She said he is my work husband. He, he is a former child actor from Arizona. He, he made his way to D.C. and inveigled his way into Jill Biden's good books by, I guess he's very clever by sort of remaking her image when she was second lady, when she was the wife of the vice president under Obama, and he stuck to her like a limpet throughout. And then when they had the 2020 campaign, he came back on board and he was one of the only staffers allowed into their Wilmington house, allowed into Joe Biden's basement. Remember during COVID during the pandemic, Joe Biden managed to hide from the public and do very limited campaign appearances because he used the excuse of COVID And he was in his very expensive, I think it's mahogany lined or oak lined, bespoke basement. It's actually his library in his lakefront mansion. And Anthony Bernal was there every day. He moved to Wilmington so that he could be with the first lady and with Joe Biden. So they came to trust him and so he knows all the secrets. If he were to spill the beans, I think we would rip the lid off this scandal. But I have a feeling that he's very loyal and that he won't do that.
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Link
Well, do you think he's still working with Jill Biden on a day to day basis or has he gone off to do consulting and other work and, you know, some swampy capacity? Is he still working with her, do you think? I mean, I imagine he will be loyal, but maybe he'll give us a little bit or a tidbit of something we can run with.
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Miranda Devine
Miranda, look, we have not seen, hide nor hear of him. Maybe he's gone back to Arizona. He certainly hasn't been showing up in Wilmington where apparently the Bidens are quite shocked at how reviled they are even in their hometown. They should have got a little glimpse of that when Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury of Delawareans in their hometown of Wilmington. And they were not at all impressed, the jurors, by the fact that Jill Biden would swan in with Bernal by her side. The diminutive Bernal, she's not very tall but he's a lot shorter than her. And she would swan in in her great finery that he, he used to dress her. He got her those Vogue covers. So she, she was quite well turned out by the end. And she would come in with her entourage and her Secret Service motorcade, and I'd sit in the front row. And I guess, yes, she thought it would somehow impress the jurors, but they, I noticed studiously, did not look at her throughout the trial. And in fact, at the end, the prosecutors said, you know, waving over to the front row, you should not pay any attention to what's going on there. You know, basically the power that's manifest in the front row in the form of the first lady.
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Link
Right.
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Miranda Devine
You should just judge on the evidence, which is exactly what they did. So I guess her plan didn't work.
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Link
Yeah, I mean, I feel like Jill Biden is gonna go down in history as one of the most unlikable figures. Like, she just seems to me like this power hungry woman. And I felt that way with the debate last year. Right. We're about 365 days away from that debate. But I don't know a woman who loves and respects her husband and would allow him to go out on stage and the shape he was in. I mean, what do you think, Miranda, about Joe Biden? Was she the one who was power hungry? Hunter was power hungry, pushing daddy to stay in the race even though they knew he was cognitively impaired?
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Miranda Devine
Totally. I completely agree with you. I mean, it's just cruel. Look, I do think Joe Biden is the architect of his own demise ultimately. And he was, he was not, you know, he was non compos mentis for some of the time. But everybody around him and anyone who knows about these kind of cognitive illnesses or frailties knows that you have good days and bad days, good hours and bad hours. So I think he had enough times of rationality to be held responsible. However, his wife did not act like, for instance, Nancy Reagan did. She was always at her husband's side, at Ronald Reagan's side, making sure that his dignity was always intact and that he was looked after. Whereas, I mean, throughout Joe Biden's presidency, you saw him wandering around, lost, just completely out of it. And where was his wife? You would think that she would at least tell the staff not to let him be photographed and videotaped in that kind of state. And then there were a few little vignettes that we saw. Like one stage, they were on the tarmac getting off Marine One, the helicopter, and he couldn't find the arm in his jacket to put his jacket on. And she just sort of rolls her eyes and, and comes over and, you know, with a grimace, just helps him on and then stalks off. She wasn't happy. I mean, she's not, I don't think, I don't know her. But, you know, you can piece together anecdotes about her and stories and just observe the way she behaved during her public time. You know, she had actually 812 years as either the first lady or the second lady and you can see that she's very self engrossed and power mad. And you mentioned the debate. I mean, how embarrassing that after the debate he goes to, you know, a watch party and gives this sort of meandering speech after he'd collapsed. And then she gets up and she goes, oh, Joe, you did so great. You know, you talked like she's talking to a little boy who's just gone on the potty.
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Link
Yeah, no, exactly. It was like, you did so good, Joe. You answered all the questions, is like, is that where the bar is? That he answered some questions, that's where the bar is. And what I find so hypocritical, and I know you do too, as a columnist, is when people say, oh my God, President Trump is a threat to democracy. No kings, no kings. What about the threat to democracy that we had, this shadow government of folks like Anthony Bernal and all of these advisors calling the shop while Joe Biden, according to reporting from Axios, was basically done at four o' clock every single day.
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Miranda Devine
Yeah, I mean, it was the American Politburo, this handful of advisors who were feathering their own nest. They wanted to preserve their power and prestige, their access to, you know, the private helicopter, the private plane, you know, the White House residents and all the power and prestige that goes with that as well as Camp David, you know, all the trappings that come from being associated with the President so closely and having him depend on you, depend on you not to go and spill the beans to the public about what's happening, depending on you just to do his job for him. It's really wrong and it's actually criminal fraud. I was speaking to John Wu and he was saying that if, if they can prove, if Coma and co can prove that people were using the auto pen when Joe Biden to sign executive orders and pardons and so on, when Joe Biden wasn't aware, wasn't compos mentis, didn't know what was going on, then that is fraud. And they could Go to jail for it?
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Link
Absolutely. No, it does seem fraudulent. And also, you can only gaslight the American people so much to tell us, don't believe what you're seeing with your own eyes. I mean, there are people deplatformed, silence served, subpoenas, all because they were reporting on the fact that Joe Biden was in decline. And they kept going out there and talking like the guy was doing cartwheels in private. And Karine Jean Pierre was one of those people. Now, you mentioned the trappings of being connected to the White House, right? The private jet, the planes, the cars, the caviar. What are you hearing about Hunter Biden now? And sort of the influence peddling because I imagine he's having a hard time peddling influence and enriching himself because Joe Biden's clout is so far down. Like normally when presidents leave office, they're getting book deals and TV deals. Look at the Obamas and the House and Martha's Vineyard. What are you hearing about Hunter? And are the Bidens in dire straits financially?
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Miranda Devine
Look, I don't think Joe Biden is. I think he's got a nice little nest egg and he's got his mansion and his beach house in Rehoboth and he's apparently trying to charge people $200,000 a pop for speeches, which is kind of slim pickings compared to Obama can charge and Clinton I think charge five, $10 million a pop. But so far he's only had one taker and I think that was probably a charity one. And so. And apart from that, he's told us that he's writing a book. So. And he complained because he said the publishers want him to write it really quickly. So I'm sure he'll be having another ghostwriter with that. But his books have never done very well and I can't see why this would un. He fesses up himself. I think there might be some curiosity value. As for Hunter, I mean, for sure he'll be sponging off his father of his parents, because as he feels they've sponged off him, the entire Biden family has been resting on his laurels for many years. He complained bitterly about having supported the family and having to give half his salary to Pop to Joe. And so now I guess it's time for them to repay the favor. He seems to be broke. I mean, even though he made tens of millions of dollars from selling his father's influence to the Chinese and the Russians and the Ukrainians and the Kazakhstanis, and so on, it seems that all of that he snorted or smoked in a crackpipe or spent on hookers and very expensive hotel rooms. So, so he now is crying poor in court at any rate, and saying that he can't afford to pay, you know, his legal bills and therefore he's got to drop a couple of lawsuits. And now one of his law firms, Abby Lowell, who was his really quite repellent lawyer through, through many of his cases he's now, his old law firm is now suing Hunter for. Well, I mean, the lawsuit says upwards of 50,000, but I'm told it's closer to the many millions, five, ten million dollars in legal fees. And so $50,000 is just what it takes to file the suit, but it's well in excess of that. So he's now saying that he doesn't have the money. And the sugar brother that he had, Kevin Morris, who was the Hollywood lawyer who footed the bills for him, paid at least I figured out about $6 million in legal fees. Plus, you know, he's very high on the hog living expenses. He had a $30,000 a month house in various houses in California, one in Venice Beach, Malibu, and, and, and he was also paying for like the, the repayments on his Porsche. And he, he, Hunter Biden was painting, you remember, he became a great artist and he was, he was painting by spitting paint through a like crack pipe onto the canvas and familiar. Anyway, he was charging, I think, you know, half a million dollars or so for these paintings. But what we found out in, in a congressional testimony of Kevin Morris and others was that actually Kevin Morris bought most of those paintings. I think one painting or two paintings were bought by this woman who then got put onto a, like a fancy committee by Joe Biden, a government committee. And also she was a relative of one of the hostages for October 7th who actually got helped, one of the few that Joe Biden helped. So that was probably money well spent on her part. But for Kevin Morris, I mean, what did he get for his 6,000, $6 million plus that he spent on Hunter Biden? I mean, he said it was a loan because otherwise Hunter would have had to pay tax on the gift. But you know, I, I mean, if Hunter's broke, I very much doubt that Kevin Morris is going to see that money. And the other intriguing part about Kevin Morris was when the IRS investigators looking into Hunter Biden's various malfeasance tried to interview him, the CIA came in and told the prosecutors that Kevin Morris was off limits. So I asked Kevin Morris why, and he just Made some crack, you know, was it going to make him more attractive to women that if people thought that he was a CIA plant, but he never answered the question. So I don't know what his, what his relationship was with the CIA, but it does become very curious because he was brought in at the time in 2019 when Joe Biden's campaign was just getting off the ground and where Hunter had a couple of big scandals about to blow up. One was his baby mama was about to sue for child support and the other one was his ex wife Kathleen was also going to take him to court for not paying alimony, but also for not paying his taxes. So there was a lien put on her passport so she couldn't travel anywhere and she couldn't, she couldn't sell her holiday house, et cetera. So he had two women problems that were going to blow up and were going to probably damage Joe Biden campaign. And so Kevin Morris came like a knight in shining armor out of the blue, you know, didn't know Hunter just happened to bump into him at a Hollywood party and then said, yeah, sure, I'll fix it all up and I'll pay off all your tax debt, et cetera. And made sure that those problems never saw the light of day until Joe Biden was well and truly ensconced in the White House.
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Link
I feel like the Biden crimes and cover ups know no bounds. And we'll be discussing this for years to come because. Because more squeaky wheels will start talking. But when I was at the White House recently, it was a gorgeous sunny day. The grass was, you know, freshly mowed. It was beautiful. And I kept thinking, what a stark contrast to the last four years. We had like hookers, cocaine, topless trans people on the White House lawn. Like, thank God we have class and dignity back in the White House because it was just a cesspool of filth the last four years under Biden with Hunter and someone you mentioned was Navy Roberts, who I interviewed a while ago. We did an Instagram live together. We went to, went through a period where we would text here and there. I love Navy Roberts. I think she's beautiful. She has beautiful eyes, big white teeth.
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Miranda Devine
Lauren, her mom, isn't it?
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Link
Oh yeah, London. London Roberts, yes. London Roberts, yeah. London Roberts.
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Miranda Devine
Excuse. Yeah.
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Link
Navies. Yes, yes, yes. So I, I was not texting David, texting London. So no, I love London Roberts. I think she has class and dignity. And I don't know how she got caught up with this guy Hunter. I can imagine how, but do you think he's ever met this baby yet? Because when I interviewed her maybe at the end of 2024, maybe six, seven months ago, he still had never met his own child, who was just a plane ride away in Arkansas.
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Miranda Devine
Yes. I. I know that London had managed to, as part of the settlement for the new child support payments that she agreed to, much lower payments that, you know, know Hunter, she had to go to court again for that. She got him to talk to Navy over Zoom. And so I don't know if they've met in person. She was very hopeful, you know, because she's a good mom, basically. She put aside just the beastly behavior of Hunter Biden, being a deadbeat dad, denying paternity, you know, etc. She put that aside because she wants her daughter to have a relationship with his father, which is what every good mother would do. So she. So I think he's met her by Zoom. I don't know if they've met in person. I kind of doubt it. And the other thing that she extracted from Hunter was a promise of a painting. I think a painting a year.
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Link
Yes. Before the settlement was a painting.
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Miranda Devine
Navy. Yeah. And Navy's such a beautiful little girl. She's just so cute. And I. I think that she's living a nice life in Arkansas with a big extended family who all love her and protect her. And I honestly don't know why any of them want her to be. Have anything to do with the Bidens. I think that'd be a very bad influence on her. But I guess, you know, she'll make up her own mind when she gets older. And we do know Jill Biden, again, this is one of the real black marks against. Was that, you know, she would. She. One of her books, she wrote in the prologue, you know, to all her grandchildren, naming them all except Navy. She used to put up Christmas stockings for all the grandchildren and the dogs at the White House, but not Navy. And get them photographed. And, you know, the snubbing was so cruel. London has talked about that cruelty. I don't know if she mentioned that to you, but, you know, it's. It's just gratuitous nastiness to exclude a child, a little baby girl who has done nothing wrong, just completely innocent, and was brought into this world and is your grandchild. You should be loving her. But no, that's not what Jill Biden wanted. And look, Hunter Biden, in his own musings and his laptop, really did not like Jill Biden, who was his stepmother, who came into Their life when he was about eight. His mother had been killed in a car crash when he was 2. And so he was like 7 or 8. And she preferred his older brother to him. That's the way he felt. He felt she just neglected him, ignored him, didn't like him. And so that had a, I think must have had a big impact on his psyche growing up.
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Link
No, absolutely. I remember reading some quotes that, you know, Hunter had allegedly called her A and A. And I kept thinking, well, Jill's probably been called a lot worse than that.
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Miranda Devine
And the C word.
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Link
Yeah, the C word, exactly. We can't use that word on here, but you guys use your imagination. So while we have a few minutes left, London Roberts, we love you. If you're listening to this, I felt the same way with the innocent child. Wouldn't you just recognize this child? But father of the year Hunter, he has zoomed and FaceTimed with the daughter. What a great deadbeat dad he is, running on family values. So I want to get to Zoran Momdani really quickly while we have a few last minutes. Zor mom. All over the news, it seems like every five minutes a new clip comes out of Zorin Momdani. I saw a post you did earlier where you spoke about how he went to the $68,000 a year, nice school in New York City. And I have felt that Zoran Mamdani is just a character, a con artist, an actor who is portraying himself as this down to earth immigrant guy who's gonna save the working class. What are your thoughts on Zoran Mamdani now that the dust has sort of settled the last few days? Days from the Democratic primary.
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Miranda Devine
You're absolutely right. He is just a theater kid, a New York theater kid, very pampered, you know, grew up on the up west side. His mother is a world famous movie director. His father was a Columbia or is a Columbia professor. Very left wing. And seems that Zoram has not rebelled against his parents one bit. He's gone all in on the socialism, the communist front front. I mean, he was. There was a clip. I mean there are all these clips now on social media. And there was one I saw this morning where he's talking about, you know, the means of production. I mean, it's straight out of Marx seizing the means of production. And then he gives this sort of benign chuckle as if that's funny. As if, you know, millions of people around the world haven't died for communism and it just, you know. But I think he is a product of, of the progressive schools that he went to in Manhattan, Progressive college. He's just the perfect product of this kind of teaching. And he's all about, you know, he mouths about social justice and all these nice things, getting stuff for free, you know, having free buses and having, you know, city run grocery stores and you know, these, these things and, and getting rid of billionaires and, and white people, rich white people wants to get r them as well. Don't know quite what he's going to do with them. Probably the Gulag if communists regimes of the past can be held up as a test. So look, but I also think he's incredibly talented. You know, his TikTok videos which put him on the map were really clever. He's clever, he's just charismatic and cinematic and all the rest. So I think he's a, he's a force to be reckoned with. And it's only because the Democratic Party is just such a hollowed out shell that it can be colonized by the most organized group, which is of course the communists. They're always organized, they're always waiting in the wings. And Zoram Mandami is their sort of perfect avatar.
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Link
Absolutely. I totally think all of this higher education, something I talk a lot is, you know, go to a, to trip trade school, go learn a skill that you will actually pay your bills because these kids are going to, you know, Columbia and Harvard and they're majoring in like Latinx literature or the colonization of this. And then they're shocked they can't find jobs or employment. What is an employer going to do with that darn degree? But then you graduate and you're taught to hate your country, to hate white people, that the world is broken up into good, bad, colonized and colonizers. And I think more Zoran Mamdani is definitely a byproduct of that juice. Think this could ever translate to a general election? Like in 2028, people say, could a Zoran Mamdani or an AOC type character ever win a general? I'm skeptical, Miranda, because I feel like Kamala Harris had so many of the same policies as Zora and she wanted the price controls, she wanted the transgender surgeries paid for by taxpayers, she wanted open borders. She was just a little bit better at hiding how radical she was.
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Miranda Devine
Yes, in fact, like Joe Biden, because he was radical during the 2020 election campaign. He was all for, for free Medicare, free legal aliens and the rest. And he was the one who, you know, was, was huge on gender mutilating, surgeries. For children.
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Link
So.
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Miranda Devine
But, but I guess you're right that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were kind of wolves in Chic's clothing. Whereas Mamdani at least says openly what he is and runs under the banner like AOC does of Democratic socialists. I like to call aoc, by the way, Sandy Cortez, which is her real name, Sandy Cortez from Westchester. She's not AOC from the Bronx. So. So Jenny from the Bob is such a cool name. It's such a good moniker. So I think we should start calling her Sandy. And so Sandy from Westchester. And Bernie Sanders. So Bernie Sanders was the socialist. I mean he, he should have won the Democratic nomination. Although, I mean he's nowhere near as radical. I think Preposi was in his. But he mellowed out when he got to Washington. But he, he, he should have won if he hadn't been cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden. So he might have. I feel like he's the representative of the kind of left wing populism, the mirror image of Donald Trump right wing populism. And I'll just say one other thing that occurs to me is that people criticize Mamdani for not having done anything apart from being an actor and, and so on. But I mean, although Donald Trump was obviously a billionaire businessman, he also was a reality star. And so he had no experience in politics or government either. So I don't think that's a very valid criticism. I think that if the Republicans are going to criticize and they are obviously Mamdani and Democrats and try to stop him from, from winning this race, they need to be much, much more savvy about their critiques because most of them just come across as just cliches. You know, he's an anti Semite, he's a commie, he's a lefty. You know, that, that those sort of labels have been thrown around willy nilly, that they really lost their meaning. You have to really look at what he says and parse it very carefully and explain why it's wrong and show him up as being kind of a dangerous person. Because he is dangerous. Behind that facade of pleasantness and charisma is really the age old dangerous beast of communism which has been, has killed so many people around the world. And he's not even hiding it.
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Link
Absolutely. No. I think you have to really call people out on their policies because I've seen the same thing where they say he was arrested rapper or he sang or made music videos. I don't Think that's gonna preclude someone from holding public office anymore? People are like, we don't care if you're a rapper or break dancer. We don't give a rat's ass. But you can call him out on his policies. And I think one of the most effective things near the end of the general election last time were these swing state ads on how Kamala Harris wanted to pay for inmates to have transgender procedures. People saw that that's a policy we hate. It's not common sense, it's radical. We don't wanna pay for it. So I agree with you. I think Republicans and especially, especially conservative media, if you're going to attack Zoron, saying he's a rapper or he's this or he's never held public office, I don't think it's going to do anything right now. I just don't know.
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Miranda Devine
I totally agree. And so he is a threat and, but I think he is the beginning of a movement in the Democratic Party because it's, I think by the time it got to Joe Biden, this adult old man was really, was exhausted and Kamala Harris was the last, last gasp and she was just a nightmare of a candidate. So clearly that's a party ripe for takeover and seems like the moderates just have no heart. Most of the moderates probably have gone over to Donald Trump. He's managed to steal the Democrats base voters. You know, he's getting Hispanics and black voters, particularly men, working class unions. And this is all the people that the Democrats have lost. They're now the party of the very wealthy and the very poor, the underclass who they need to keep as the underclass. They need to grow the underclass so that they can maintain their power. And that's why I think they brought in all those illegal aliens who have to work for slave wages and be second class citizens because they are the, you know, the, the sort of underpinnings of the Democratic Democrats new base.
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Link
Absolutely. Well, they're telling me we are out of time. I could not be more grateful for you coming on. I love all of your columns. I love seeing you. I agree with almost everything you say. I'm like, yes, Miranda, yes, Miranda, yes, Miranda, we have to have you come back on. I love Pod Force One. I can't wait to see who you interview next. It's like the most high profile, incredible people. You're like, you've got Scott Besson. I think you have Tom Homan coming up. But thank you so, so, so much for coming on here and have an incredible week.
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Miranda Devine
Oh, thanks so much Link. It's been a pleasure and I love your show too.
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Link
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72Appetition.Org well, last but not least, we have to discuss these pride parades that were all across the country over the weekend. You probably saw the clips on social media from New York City, especially coming down fifth Avenue. And as someone who used to go to these pride parades back in 2017, 2018, there's a reason I would never participate at the this current time because the Pride parades have descended into debauchery. They're sacrilegious, they're nasty, they're fringe and they are also cringe. You have people just making fun of religion, making fun of God and you can do whatever you want. You can believe in God. You don't have to believe in God. But why do you have to go out there on the street and make fun of God and make fun of other people's religions. And when I was looking at these clips, when I was looking at clips from the Pride Parade, all I could think was, was these folks seem to have severe mental illnesses. Right? In my opinion, these folks have severe issues. We need to open the asylums. They seem cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Crazy, okay? At the Pride Parade, and it didn't used to be like that. The Pride Parade would be fun. People, they were celebrating. You actually wanted to get together and fight for equal rights. But the thing is, right now, LGBT folks have equal rights, okay? There are no rights gay people don't have in this country. Trans people have equal rights. And they just keep looking for new ways to constantly play the victim and to go out into the street and to make a spectacle. But you really don't even need Pride anymore. Pride was a fight for equal rights. Now, basically, it's an excuse to walk down the street naked and twerk on police officers and act all hooty tooty and crazy and to make fun of religion. So I found the Pride parades to be gross. There's a reason most normal gays, and y' all know what I mean by that, there's a reason normal gays don't participate in Pride anymore and don't want anything to do with it, because it's just turned into a clown show, an absolute clown show. And how come on Pride they're allowed to just walk down the street stark naked, which should be illegal on any other day. And this is what I'm talking about with the self reflection. So many LGBT folks need to do that self reflection and realize, do you want equal rights or do you want special treatment? You understand what I'm saying? Because if you're a man and you decide just to identify as a woman, you suddenly think you want carte blanche and entree into women's sports, women's spaces. You are not entitled to that. What? So, so, so the Pride parades. You won't see me at one of the Pride parades. I don't do crowds. I thought a lot of it was disgusting and gross and was just embarrassing and fringe and didn't do anything to help LGBT folks whatsoever. But something else that happened last Friday that was very important that I wholeheartedly support was the Supreme Court decision as it pertains to Maryland. So let me read this to you a little bit. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Maryland parents who sued a school board over its refusal to allow elementary school children to be taken out of classes with LGBTQ themed stor. This was a 6:3 decision along ideological lines that came down on Friday from the Supreme Court. So basically, parents can opt out of some LGBTQ R2D2 education for their young children. And I support this because I think parents know best. As a gay man, I don't have kids. Most gay men do not have children. I think these parents know what is best for their kids. If your kid is not mature enough or you don't want your kid to be exposed to some of these themes and topics, especially by teenagers you don't know that well, and a classroom you're not monitoring, you should be allowed to pull your kid out, and they shouldn't be penalized for not partaking in that. So that's something I wholeheartedly support. And some of these books we're seeing in children's classrooms are downright obscene. It's sort of like south park, you know, south park and Family Guy. These are not children's shows just because they're cartoons. And the same way some of these books are not children's books just because they're cartoons. So let me read you. We actually pulled up some of these books that they're putting in these kids classrooms, and I understand why the parents are upset and they don't want their kids exposed to this. So one of the books is called Pride Puppy, which is a picture book aimed at three and four year olds that instructs them to look for items they might find at a gay pride parade. Why does a three or four year old need that? Why can't children be children? Why are you pushing LGBT ideology onto these young kids when their brains are sponges and they're malleable and they should have the innocence that children deserve? So in the book, they're looking for underwear, lip rings, drag kings, and late gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson, whom critics once noted was a sex worker. So why are children who are three or four years old being given this book called Pride Puppy to look for items they would find at a pride parade? Little kids don't need to be at pride parades anymore. And I do judge the parents who take their kids to pride parades. But this is a book you shouldn't have in the classroom. Now let's move on to this next book. This book is called Intersection Allies, which delves into transgenderism, and it's meant for K5 students, and it explains transgender and non binary concepts. Concepts. While asking the question, what pronouns fit you? Why do you have to even put this kernel into a young kid's mind who's trying to learn the ABCs, the 1, 2, 30s. Why do you have to even tell them you might be born in the wrong body? You might be da da, da da. Why make that confusing sentiment and push it into a kid's mind when they're so malleable? It just makes no sense to me. I think it's gross. And kids should be allowed to be kids. And what I'll also say is, with the education system in the United States of America, America, math and reading levels are so low. Why are we not in the top 10 or 20 countries when it comes to math and arithmetic and all of these things? And now the kids are having to read books about being, you know, non binary. That's insane to me. So the last book is called what are your words? This is a book that tells students in a similar age range that one's pronouns can change like the weather, and follows one child who briefly embraces they them pronouns. This is what really sickens me, right? Telling a kid you can just change your pronouns, change your gender like the weather. I'm sorry, it's gross. If a kid comes to you and says he or she feels like they were born in the wrong body, you handle that. But you don't constantly push these things onto these kids. This is called indoctrination. And this is why I support the Supreme Court decision as it pertains to Maryland. I think this should really just be the law of the land. If you are a parent out there, you know what is best for your kid. If you don't want your kid exposed to these LGBTQ themes, which I don't think they should be, at such a young age age, you have the right to pull your kid out of that classroom. And one thing I'll say to wrap up, a lot of these teachers think of themselves as activists now, right? They're not just teachers. We see the clips on social media. Some of these teachers, they're teaching kids. You could have zim zier pronouns, things I've barely heard of. And I'm a gay man in my 20s. So these parents know what's best. And there are incredible teachers. There are amazing teachers out there. Many of you might be teachers now. You might be married to a teacher or dating a teacher. Teacher. I could not be more grateful for our incredible educators across the country. But there are some fringe radicals who think of themselves as activists, and they want to push these books like Pride Puppy onto these children where they have to look for items you would find at a pride parade. I think it's gross. I support the Supreme Court decision. Does it mean I'm against the gays? Does it mean I'm against my own people? No, because most normal gays agree with me. They do not think young children need to be exposed to all of these themes. And the parents, parents should know best. Now, as for you guys, you know what's best in your life and I want to hear from you. So be sure to write in and drop a comment and tell us what you think about Spoton. What topics do you want us to cover? We have a lot coming up on the show. We have some, some fun surprises. We might be switching some things up. We'll have more to discuss on Wednesday, but please be safe. Thank you for tuning in. I will see you on the next one. By.
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